Scanialara You won't be disappointed!

GurlyIamBeach Instant Favorite.

BallWubba Wow! What a bizarre film! Unfortunately the few funny moments there were were quite overshadowed by it's completely weird and random vibe throughout.

Guillelmina The film's masterful storytelling did its job. The message was clear. No need to overdo.

moran-78845 I watched both versions of the original Godzilla and I enjoyed the one with Raymond Burr much better. The first film focused too much upon the uninteresting love triangle. The long scenes with the elderly professor ruminating about saving Godzilla from destruction was goofy considering how dangerous the creature was proving to be. Also, why was the island boy who lost his parents on Odo island suddenly in Tokyo with the professor and his doctor.

thejcowboy22 The atomic age Sci-fi movies were all the rage in the 1950's. Godzilla King of the Monsters is no exception. Opening scene is a dismal setting. Destroyed Tokyo, with flames and flattened building for miles. In one of the remaining skyscrapers we see a demolished office with a fallen beam on our star narrator Raymond Burr as he is almost beyond recognition with dark smudges covering his face and tattered clothes. In Burr's opening remarks he's lucky to be alive after what he saw. Burr plays U.S. News reporter Steve Martin who a few days earlier, was en-route to Cairo, Egypt when he was to stop over and catch up with an old friend Dr. Serezawa. Upon Steve Martin's landing in the Tokyo Airport he is met by two Japanese officials for questioning. The two officers asked if he saw anything unusual while in the air. Martin like most of the passengers saw nothing.Meanwhile 10,000 feet below a Japanese freighter was totally destroyed with no survivors with some sort of heat ray. The distress signal from the freighter wireless were all the Japanese coastguard could go on at the time. No survivors. Another ship is destroyed with one survivor who was washed up on Odo Island as the traumatized victim describes the sea beast who destroyed his ship. This prompts the press and the Scientists to travel to Odo Island. A large radioactive footprint is discovered and then the ominous pounding and the Earth begins to shake. Then the large shrill and moans as the locals run for the hills . I had no problem with the dubbing and added scenes with Burr from the Japanese original two years earlier. For me the narrations were clear, concise and correct. The sound effects used in the film were for the most part startling with the thunderous thuds of the monster's walk. The moans were just as frighting. Your imagination can only conjure up what kind of horrible creature could do such damage. About 20 years later the same movie was re-released and colorized. Big mistake. Other Godzilla movies were made and are still produced as the franchise continues. Still captivates me to this day. I even watched this movie in Spanish featured on the local UHF Spanish language channel WNJU TV located in Linden Newark,New Jersey, Featured as " El Mundo Del Terror". I still argue that Godzilla is better than the British production of Gorgo. You decide!

skybrick736 Having watched the original Gojira right before the American produced debauchery which is King of the Monsters, I can't help but be disappointed in it. Adding in American actor Raymond Burr, who did alright in the film didn't mesh at all with the story or editing of the original Japanese characters. The movie didn't have the dark atmosphere like Gojira portrayed which led to the Godzilla scenes being a little duller. Many of the important scenes describing the message of nuclear bombing was cut from the American version leaving a bad taste in my mouth. As a modern day movie watcher I would suggest to definitely skip this movie and check out the original Japanese original since dubbing foreign movie classic is surely an outdated method.

Ben Larson The 1954 classic was apparently not good enough for American audiences. They remade the film with Raymond Burr narrating the action and starring as a reporter covering the incident.Rather than a subtitled film, we get one dubbed. At least they left some of the Japanese dialog.Stars of the original film, Takashi Shimura, Momoko Kôchi, and Akira Takarada, took second billing to Burr, who dominated throughout. Godzilla was a grave representation of the horrors of the H bomb; horrors that Japan knew all too well. Scenes of the destruction caused by Godzilla, and of the broken, burning bodies pulled from the rubble, look authentic enough to be documentary footage of Hiroshima or Nagasaki. The film, a huge hit in the original form, must have been therapeutic for the Japanese people.